Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi, the New Nigerian Peoples Party candidate for the Kogi State House of Assembly, has been moved to Lagos after being arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja for a massive bank fraud.
In the early hours of Wednesday, the politician-turned-cyber-fraud suspect was flown into Lagos as part of the ongoing investigation into the scam.
Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, stated that Atumeyi was scheduled to be interrogated by another team of operatives at the Commission’s Lagos Command.
Atumeyi and two others, Joshua Dominic and Abdulmalik Salau Femi, a former bank employee, were arrested by the EFCC for allegedly hacking into the system of a commercial bank and defrauding the institution of over N1.4 billion.
The EFCC had in a statement on Tuesday November 1, 2022 disclosed that it recovered N326 million and $140,500 from Atumeyi during a sting operation at his hideout in Queens Estate, Gwarinpa, Abuja, while $470, 000 was recovered from Abdulmalik in Lagos.